Safe and sound in Durban

Here is a pic of the new German made stadium in Durban. A brief one hour flight and here I am in Durban, One of South Africa's major cities in the south. Durban is located in Kwa-Zulu Natal - home of Zululand!...Durban is also undergoing a semi-architectural facelift.....new stadiums, supermalls, and hotels all in anticipation of the 2010 worldcup. It is a multicultural city that has a heavy blend of African and Indian influences. It is not as hectic as Joburg, a lot calmer city. I think that the largest building is the stadium in the pic above.....the scale is so large that it doenst relate to anything else in the city. The beachfront has a very Miami-esque feel to it, but minus the tourists.......

Suzanne Edmunds - the Executive Director for Project Build helped me find a nice bed and breakfast to stay in.

Project Build is a non-profit in Durban that builds schools and community centers in some of the rural areas of Durban. They currently have some clinics in the pipeline. They are located not too far from the heart of the Durban city center. We have a community design meeting scheduled for Wednesday and hopefully we can get her staff and community members together to talk about some of the facilities that they have built. The staff seems excited about it, so I think it will be a productive meeting.

Tomorrow I will be traveling into a Zulu community to talk to high school students about their new school. moving fast.....